July, 2011

Hear deep insights from the top-awarding-winning Stacey Cerniuk, Founder and CEO of Annex Consulting Group, Entrepreneur, Innovating Executive, Business & Technology Authority. Ask yourself these questions and how do your experiences stack up against Stacey’s? Stacey shares top success attributes for professionals working as: CEOs, leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, HR managers, recent graduates...

Over the last few weeks I have received many emails from individuals across the country asking about TechDays 2011 so I figured I would give you all an update.  Over the last few months the team and I have been discussing how we can make TechDays 2011 even better than in previous years.  We took your feedback over the last three years as the basis of our discussion on making an improved TechDays...

Today is the 12th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day and I hope you’ve all taken a few minutes to give your IT girl or guy a hug, a thank you , a free lunch or a case of their favourite wine/beer. If you haven’t yet, stop reading, go take care of it and come back. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. Ok now that you’re back, let’s continue… In thinking about Sys Admin Day, I got to thinking about what...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Benoit Bertrand: Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer, Avanade. Benoit share his top leadership and technology lessons plus key insights on cloud computing from a recent global survey. Benoit goes on to share his views on the World CIO Forum, IT as a recognized...

This is the next blog in the continuing series of interviews with top-echelon and renowned professionals. In this blog, I have an interview with Eugene Fiume. I first met Eugene at the special celebration for global computing pioneer, Kelly Gotlieb where I was invited to speak ( http://tinyurl.com/3oeybdf ) . Eugene is a driving force at the University of Toronto (ranked in the top 8 in the world in...

I did an IT Manager Connection interview with Pekka Viljakainen, Author No Fear: Business Leadership In the Age of Digital Cowboys -- the book is available in several languages in more than 100 countries. During the summer, Pekka is leading a video series with 45 top executives, politicians, and researchers discussing ideas around growth, change, and learnings. Pekka shared the first in the series...